Tomorrow
will be a significant day. The world public will be following the United States elections there. It is the most powerful
nation on Earth. Actually, with less than 5% of the world population it
swallows every year great amounts of oil and gas, minerals, raw materials,
consumer goods and sophisticated products brought from overseas. Many of these,
particularly the fuels and those extracted from mines, are non renewable.

It is
the largest arms producer and exporter. Its industrial military complex also
has an insatiable domestic market. Its naval and air forces are deployed in
scores of military basis located in the territory of other nations. The United States strategic warhead-carrying missiles can
reach any place in the world with absolute precision.

A great
number of the cleverest minds in the world are uprooted from their original
countries and placed at the service of the system. It is a parasitical and
plundering empire.

It is a
known fact that the black population introduced in the US territory throughout centuries of slavery
is the victim of a marked racial discrimination.

The
Democratic candidate Obama is partly black; the dark skin and features of that
race are predominant in him. He was able to study at a higher education center
where he graduated with outstanding results. He is surely more clever, better
educated and calm than his Republican adversary.

I’m
analyzing tomorrow’s elections when the world is enduring a serious financial
crisis –the worst since the 1930s— among many others which have seriously
affected the economy of many nations in the course of over three fourths of a
century.

The
international media, the political analysts and commentators are using part of
their time to discuss the issue. Obama is considered the best political speaker
of the United States in the past decades. His compatriot Toni
Morrison, a 1993 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, and the first one from her
ethnic group born in the United States who has been awarded such prize --an
excellent author-- has called him the future President and poet of that nation.

I have
been watching the struggle between the contenders. The black candidate caused
much amazement with his nomination in the face of strong adversaries. He has
well articulated ideas which he hammers once and again into the voters’ minds. He
does not hesitate to claim that more than Republicans or Democrats they are all
Americans, the citizens he qualifies as the most productive in the world. He
says he will reduce taxes for the middle class, where he includes practically
everybody, while he will completely remove them for the poorest and raise them
for the wealthiest. The revenues, he claims, will not the used to bailout
banks.

He
insists repeatedly that the ruinous spending on Bush’s war in Iraq will not be paid by the American
taxpayers. He will put an end to it and bring the US troops back home. Perhaps he is mindful of
the fact that that country had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks of September
11, 2001. However, the blood has been shed of thousands
of US troops, injured or killed in battle, and the lives taken of over a
million people in that Muslim nation. It was a war of conquest imposed by the
empire seeking for oil.

In light
of the current financial crisis and its consequences, the American people are
more concerned over the economy than the war in Iraq. They are anguishing over their jobs, the
safety of their bank deposits and their retirement funds, and the fear of
loosing the purchasing power of their money and the houses where they live with
their families. They wish to have the certainty that whatever the circumstances
they will receive adequate medical care and that their children will accede to
higher education.

Obama
is challenging and I think he has taken and will still take great risks in a
country where any extremist can legally purchase a sophisticated modern weapon
anywhere, as it was the case in the first half of the 18th century
in the west of the United States. He supports his system and he will be get
support from it. The pressing problems of the world are not really a major
source of concern to Obama, much less to the candidate who as a war pilot
dropped tens of tons of bombs on Hanoi City, that is, more than 9,375 miles
away from Washington, and this with no remorse.

When
last Thursday I addressed a letter to Lula, in addition to what I already
mentioned in my Reflections of October 31, I literally wrote: “Racism and
discrimination have been present in the American society ever since its birth,
over two centuries ago. Latin Americans and blacks have always been
discriminated against there. Its citizens have been brought up under
consumerism. Humanity is objectively threatened by its mass extermination weapons.”

“The
American people are more concerned over the economy that the Iraq war. McCain is an old, bellicose and
uneducated man; he is not very smart and he is in poor health.”

Finally,
I said: “If my estimates were wrong and racism prevailed: if the Republican
candidate won the Presidency, the danger of a war would increase and the
peoples’ opportunities to progress would be reduced. Nevertheless, we need to
fight and to build awareness about this, whoever it is who wins this election.”

When
these views that I sustain are published tomorrow, nobody will have time to say
that I wrote something that could be used by any candidate to advance his
campaign. I had to be, and I have been, neutral in this electoral competition.
It is not “interference in the internal affairs of the United States”, as the State Department would put it, as
respectful as it is of other countries’ sovereignty.